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THE ARMY TAKES OVER U.S.-Bound Chinese Heroine
To Resign Troops Distributing Food In London
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London, Jan. 13.
Prime Minister Cle-i ment R. Attlee threa-i tened to resign last week following a clash with Trade Union colleagues in the Cabinet, high Govern- level Labour ment sources disclosed today.
These sources said· Attlee told Trade Union ministers, thut their support of the Trade Union Congress could have "extremely grave effects on the British constitution. Attlee, deprecated the recurrence of unofficial strikes and warned that disaster must result if working brues were not main- tained, wages stabilized and restrictive practices jabandoned:]
Trouble in the Cabinet, ap- parently, had abated during the weekend but it was excepted to recur with added significance this week, particularly if the truck drivers strike spread to
FREAK MISHAP TO PLANE
London, Jun. 1.
A chartered plane, carrying 10 passengers ¡rom Britain to the Chaumet inland of Guera. ery, was, mwept out to sea aller on-emergency landing on a French bench at Fer-
miles mandville, 11
from Cherbourg, but all aboard teere saved.
Driven off Be course by o sudden start
plane the reached the French Abore and made a safe landing on a Horace were and brack
then attached fp the plane but before they could budge it freut the stund the rising tide carried it away-United Fras
3rd Division Going To
other sections of the haulage Palestine
transpert industry. United Press.
BLUM LEAVING FOR LONDON
Paris, Jan. 13. The Agence France Presse an- nounced today that Premier Leon Blum was leaving Paris for Lon- do it I nam, tousy.
The Premier's office said Blum was going to London "at the Bei
tish Government's invitation, but declined to give further details. The French Foreign Office refused LG comment. ~United Press,
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Cairo, Jan. 13.
A military source said today
that the British Third Di- vision is being transferred from Egypt to Palestine and that one brigade has already arrived in the Holy Land.
The source said the important move will accomplish two pur poses the evacuation of addi- tintal troops from Egypt and the strengthening of military
Strike Spreads
To LancashireTM
London, Jan, 13..
Troops took over the distribution of food in strike- bound London today without incident and service forces as far north as the Midlands were ordered to stand by in case the sympathy strikes which threatened to tie up several of England's largest cities materialised. Good-natured joshing greeted men of Guards
units who moved into Smithfield and Billings gate markets and on to London docks where stevedores threatened to walk out if the Guardsmen went to work.
extended.
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One porter cracked, "Look { case the Merseyside sympathy at the King's Own on KP" at walkout werd Smithfield as Guardsmen strug- union spokesman said that al gled with sides of beef,
large area of Liverpool and the Housewives waited imputfent- Merseyside would be affected ly for the first meat to reach
if the Stanley, walkout "persista į butcher shops in the seven days that the unaliciai strike has persisted. Officials said it would
MINE RESCUE EFFORTS
Edinburgh, Jan. 12. Though it is feared that
14 miners who were trapped by the explosion and fire in the oil-from-sluulepit
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West Calder, Midlothian, on continued today
Friday night arc
fire deal, cnews
ofarts wcro and it was believed the
thed fire would be got mufficiently under control to permit the recovery of the bodies,
About 70 Tracur workers and firemen were still in the pit tonight and the fire waa being fought at twn levels a long distance from the sain haulage way-Reuter.
Restaurant
more than a day or two."-" Customers
Strikers' Meeting Extra police and troops in
be hours before meat and proexcess of those needed to carry duce appeared in retall shop on work at London's markets again.
at Smithfield and were standing by.
Porters Billingsgate walked out as scon as the troops began, hauling joined the strike and the threat produce. Provision workers also sympathy walk cuts loomed. All leave was suspended for the Metropolitan police who by in case any disorder which showed materialising.
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Stampede
The strikers at Smithfield night. held a meeting this morning at nearby. Memorial Hall,
Stowaways Increasing
Of Air Crash
Manila, Jan. 13. The Army transport General E. T. Collins docked -
at 12.45 p.m. today with 36 survivors of the crash of the F.E.A.T.I. C-54 on Saturday. The six missing passengers were Chinese; all, the Americans, Australians and British were saved, The missing passengers, all believed to be from
London, Jan. 13. The increasing number of stowaways trying to get to the U.S. are such a nuisance and cost to shipowners that speciall
500 fine or five years. imprisonment" warning notices are being posted in crews' quarters.
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for
Shanghai, are Miss Szu Lan Lee, William G. Young, S. P. Chan, Tung P. Cing, Chan Y. Gee and T. Y. Lee.
B.O.A.C.
DAKOTA
CRASH
London, Jan. 13.
to
Two previously reported as British passengers were Aus- This follows a threat by the tralians. U.S. Government to impose
Lamarr The pilots, Robert' 4500 fine on shipowners and Noel Worley, said they were every stowaway discovered try cruising at about 8,000 feet ing to enter the country.
motor when the number two
The death toll rose Several scores of people have caught fire, burned out and stowed away on ships leaving dropped into the sea.
in the crush They
siz yesterday England-ranging from
G.J. said a
still of a British Operaue dir- wing was, wives to German prisoners. burning and "it
ways Dakota. Was 1 a' Many of them have not been race to see if we discovered.
ditch it in the ocean before, the wing burned off, in which case nobody would have lived."
Secret Aid Shipowners believe that if they bring 16 the notice of their crews the legal penalty for help- ing a stowaway, they will be -- Jess likely to feed secrelly any
one found aboard ship.,
The acute shortage of berths on ships bound for the U.S. is said to be increasing the num- ber of stowaways. Many are wives trying to join their Sanrtly after 9 o'clock last American husbands,
the Overseas
Youth! Action Organization again fol lowed up a threat with action the sound when a detonator was plant which was quite loud, there was ed in the ground for lavatory a mad scramble for the street. of the Min Kwok Restaurant, with the result that the man No. 112 Wellington Street. agement have suffered a dead There were no-casualties low-on-the-meals-supplied-up-
of the explosion,
The dock of the lavatory was to the time of the explosion. In completely belown away by the force of the explosion and the area adjacent to the lavators
well as the floor of the lava-
could
Four of the Chinese passen- ger lost never cleared the plans. Three Chinese women
on the passenger list were drowned. The others were saved.
"Not Scared
not
Braddock, 11, with his brother The youngest survivors, Roy
Frederick, 13, was on his way to Perth, Australia, to boarding school. He said, was frightened at all. I just fas tened my safety belt and wait ed. When we bit water. I'lump ed over two seats, out of a window, Inflated my life-belt, then waited to be picked up by
Chinese Heroine
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were
The plane's radin officer, Sandford, died in hospital where two other crew mem- bera and sight - passengers which The Dakota from crashed into a Kent hillside an Saturday, in thick fog
to recove", expected Three passengers and crew members died earlier.
One of the injured wook 18 - monthe old Christin Saunders who was aroun clear of the sareekage and escaped with a fractured leg. -Associated Presa
and Jeremy Spikina, 12, of Yorkshire, England.„„Associated Press,
Boys' Pluck
An emergency meeting of the 45-man Road Haulage Central Wages Board, whose decision
Of the survivors, five Chinese on the truck drivers' claims ori-
were injured. The passengers a raft." ginally started the strike, be
The pilot, Robert Lamari,ild-that-the-crash-occurred. 1341 sign of gan at 11.30 am. Sir Francis Floud, independent Chairman
their haste to get cut of the said, "We are lucky, to be alive." when the engines failed and burst into flames only five A force of six-fot London of the Board, presided and Mr.
Restaurant, customers upset -United Press.
minutes off the Luzon coast. City policemen was on duty as Harold Clay, Assistant General
spittoons, tea pots and dishes
The plane sank within
five troops moved into Smithfield. Secretary of the Transport and forces in Palestine.
of food. One customer was so The survivors said a Shan niistics, making rescue of the General Sir-Evelyn Barker, Troops and tricks nad up General Workers Union (parent try itself was littered with anxious to get away that he hai woman probably gave her trapped: victims impossible.
left his shoes behind: about the mare amid gold- Pales-
life in an heroiè rescue. She was The Police were quickly ou Cairo, Jan. 12.
Employces of the Restaurant Miss Szu. Lan Lee who swam tine, is here conferring with natured jeering from workers, body for truckers organisa-plaster from the waik.
the scene and carried cut in said that shortly before the back to the sinking C54 and Lieutenant-General Sir Miles General Sir Miles Dempsey, The atmosphers was almost tion) attended.. Dempsey, British Commander in Commander-in-Chief Middle cordial.
At Smithfield, meanwhile, the vestigations and enquiries. A explosion took place, a Chinese pulled Tse Foong-lo of Chung flashlight photo was taken af was seen to enter the lavatory king, badly injured, from the continued work, helping troops the point of the explosion. where necessary.
but no particular significance cabin. Tse reached a lifeboat The Restaurant was full of was attached to the occurrence but Miss. Szu was seen to go Troops took over at the customers at the time, but it! at the time, metropolitan cattle market at Islington early today but none
British Commander in
Chief in the Middle East, who East Land Forces, presumably Commandos Move In guided of clerks and salesmen
went on an unofficial visit to Pretoria Just before Christmas, on the Palestine security situa returned tonight to Cairo by way; tion.
of Nairobi, Kenya and Khartoum.
Lieutenant-General Sir Evely
Barker, General Officer Com- manding, Palestine, has also are rived in Culto for talks with Sir Miles nit has been reported
the military situation in Pales: tine-Reuter.
Clapham Common the AL serne in the arcu was reminia- cent of that during the war. know yet whether General Headquarters for 3.000 troops
Officials said they did
not
Barker would be returning to from 21 Guards training Palestine immediately,
and the as re- battalion
Scots up in an raid shelter. From half a mile away German pri- soner.cf war were sent to set up field kitchens and marquees for messes.
ported from Jerusalem, because Guards were set
new outbreak of ter-air of the rorism. Associated Press.
Stern Gang Strike In Haifa
Jerusalem, Jan. 12.
A violent explosion shook the centre of Haifa this morning, smashing windows and causing a fire. Communication between police headquarters in Jerusalem and police headquarters Haifa was cut off this evening.
* post office and police headquarters | juftd, 40 seriously enough to
buildings in Haifa were blown up. require hospital treatment.
One thousand trucks
have been sent to Croydon or Kingston cattle markets.
Strong Statement There were no formal picket lines as often appear on the American strike scene but Small crowds of workers stood around
places, were market
occasionally wise-cracking at the sweating troops. Strikers outside Fair-) clough's depot quietly watched
m bilised from all parts of southern England. There were parked at Clapham Common and at Wellington Barracks in the
West End,
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Fanatical Fighting In Indo-China
(By Doon Campbell)".
Hanoi, Jan. 13.
the arrival of the Coldstream The whole of Northern Indo-China is an inferno
Guards and personnel
of the
Royal Artillery who drove i truck convoy to the market and loaded produce.
Detachments of Marine Com mande from North Wales and groups of RASC and Pioneer Corps and other units also were moved into London during the
Mr. Joe Richards, Chairman of the Meat Section of the night.
A mass meeting of reads Smithfield branch of TGWU, in workers
at King's Cross, a strongly worded statement London and North-Eastern after the Memorial Hall meet-a
today-dozens of columns of black smoke are spiralling to the sky, where Viet Namese have applied the "scorched earth" tactics to their villages or where French bombs have fired na- tive huts..
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The French are taking Hanoi in drove in the edge of No-Man's grim room by room and yard Land today, where derelict Jap- by yard battle, but they are sick atjanese artillery emplacements have
Unconfirmed reports reaching officially listed as dead. Sixty Jerusalem toniglit said that the cans were among those in-away station, today decided ing warned that if troops were heart with the whole business that just been abandoned by the Viet
to adopt "passive resistance" employed after the present meat keeps them fighting, killing and Namese. should troops drive food trucks stocks were distributed "we dying.
will consider taking action.”
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into the depot,
It was feared that a number of The blast caused fires in, ad- persons had been killed,
Lancashire Strike joining buildings and shook the
J
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official statement tonight | entire city.
The first result of the strike cutside London was a decision of 156 workers at Liverpool's Stanley Abbiatoir to strike in sympathy. They walked out this morning.
said that two British constables A Government announcement and two Arab temporary addi- suid that a small automobile tional constabled were killed by containing explosives was an explosion in the compound of driven alongside the police sta police headquarters at Halta to- tion and the occupants of the night,
car fled three minutes before Troops in the Northern Com- It was officially stated later the biast at 5.10 p.m.
mand, including Yorkshire, that a small vehicle drove into Police declined to comment Lincolnshire. Derbyshire, Not- 'the security compound of the dia- officially as to the perpetrators, tinghamshire, Durham and trict police headquarters in Halta but one veteran officer declared Northumberland, stood by in and blew up three minutes later, that it looks like the Stern case the strike spread to those killing two British and three boys are at work again.” Counties. Arab constables,
spokesman
Much Damage Extensive damage was done to the police headquarters building
were
and windows throughout the town.
The outrage breaks the rumour- ed truce which terrorists were reported to have
announced
earlier this week.
The Jewish. Agency. Issued
A few shots were
The War Office said arrangements were made in case forces in that command should be called cut.
In an armoured Jeep mounted with a couple of machineguns," I
Faked Story Of Wake Island Deaths
Here hundreds of foxholes fine Hed the causeway between the. River and the Canal des, Rapides. Although the paddy and light Jungle is burning, the French say that the Viet Namese, will be back.
One Viet Namese lay up to his neck in water until he killed a French officer with his water- proof'grenade. The Viet Namesc was killed too but that is the way they fight-fantastically and fans- tically.
Through an chservation ali on another section of the front, I saw the Viet Nam front-line. Rick- shos, kitchen tables, prams, beds, desks and rocking chairs piled up into barricades behind which Viet Namesc will resist as long as they have the breath:
were
Tokyo, Jan. 13. Reports that a new powerful American task force was about to invade Wake Island on October 7, 1943, resulted in the Japanese slaughtering 97 American civilian prisoners of war, according to Japanese affidavits introduced at the major war crimes Military Tribunal here today, The 97th man, who escaped, Beginning. Angust 22, the was later caught und also Japanese spent two days dig. This is a desperate nerve-wrack- executed,
ging up American remains and ing war-Reuter. removing them-to-the- artz which American worships had bombarded.
Government officials said that the explosives Taden auto- mobile was marked "police" and that its driver was disguised as a policeman. shattered
The Western Command head- fired by quarters said weekend leaves guarde' as its driver and two were cancelled and and vehicles
Lt-Cmdr Shoich! Tachibana other young men left the car were standing by "although no in an affidavit said that while
the maze and fled into
of orders have come down' to' un
every Japanese unit on Wake streets and alleys in lower Haifa yet."
was busily preparing for. in- Admiral Sakibara in his own waterfront station.
Troops from the Western vacion, Admiral Shigematau adavit tried to defend him Guarda who saw the fuse Command would take over in Sakibara, commander on the Reif by saying the false story strong denunciption of this newest outrage only two hours after blazing in the car sounded the
island, suddenly issued orders was aimed at saving his subor- mored. skoly GE, . A small high, pressure alarm and the six storey build-
at sunset to kill every Ameri- dinutes, who were only obeying cell covers Japan. Pressure remains tow can prisoner.
orders. He said be had heard over the Kurtles with a trough extending "It was so sudden that I from San Francisco and Mel from them across the Ryukyu Islands was startled." Tachibana said, bourne radios that even subar
but I didn't have a bit of dinates of war criminals would doubt and thought it was Jus be punished for atrocities and tifiable to execute prisoners of felt there would be a greater wer according to the situation grief" for the commanding
officer. that night."
the event.
They claim that the attackersing.
Was
evacuated hastily.
were bent on demonstrating that About 15 policemen managed ON OTHER
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"Jewish terrorists intend to pursue to get out safely..
British First Infantry Divi- 'their own line, in spite of recent i pressure from the Hagans slon troops swiftly cordoned off Page Ti Jewish "Home Guard" Reuter, the area. Bren carriera
Grim Tales of Deportations bled to strategic points Guards from E.K. were doubled at all public The Furniture Problem. buildings. It was the first Page Three
Shock City,
Jerusalem, Jan. 13.
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At least Ove policemen were major Palestine bombing In Tokunaga's Surprising State officially reported killed and 12 early six weeks Associated persons injured in a terrific Press, blast which "virtually levalled".
the Haifa police station. Un-Mombasa, Kenya, Jan. 13. official reports said that the A general strike of all African death toll might reach 12. Two labour started in this sea port to- British conatabies” and, three day, bringing practically all work Arab temporary officials were to a standstill-Reuter,
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Lieutenant Toraji Ito, in an Other Japanese affidavits told low Sakibara fabricated adavit recalled witnessing the story that half the Americans Americans. about to be mas were Illed in United States sacred by 100 Japanese rifle,
bombardment.". of the men
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Of the survivors; the least perturbed seemed to be the three British beye who appeared. none the worse for their ex- pertence. Another British sur- vivor, Mr. Stone, paid a tribute to the boys' pluck, when he said: "After the crash hud o The plane was set down incurred, the plane began to sink an emergency landing, on the rapidly. The women ware gol calm China Sen about 2 o'clock cut first, followed by the men. Saturday afternoon because of The boys climbed through the a fire in the No. 2 engine that wing from which 1 had pushed threatened an explosion.
them into sea, telling them to Three young British boys awin! towards” a raft; af survived the ordeal in fine which they showed splendid awake and courage, keeping us spirits. They were Roy
their Fred Braddock, 11 and 13 years through the night by old. headed from their home in exelted talking.
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